MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2022 - HALLOWEEN AND TECHNOLOGY

 MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2022 - HALLOWEEN AND TECHNOLOGY

I’ve been looking at technology for the last week.  Today a look at an amazing chip - that is super fast!!

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The chip can transmit all of the internet's traffic every second

“A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fiber-optic cable – enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time, and more traffic than travels through the entire internet’s backbone network per second.

“Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen and his colleagues have used a photonic chip – a technology that allows optical components to be built onto computer chips – to divide a stream of data into thousands of separate channels and transmit them all at once over 7.9 kilometers.

“Splitting data into a spectrum of color packets has enabled a single computer chip to transmit a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fiber-optic cable

From: Chip can transmit all of the internet's traffic every second | New Scientist October 20, 2022

Although data transfer rates of up to 10.66 petabits per second have been achieved before using bulky equipment, this research sets a record for transmission using a single computer chip as a light source. The technology could create simple, single chips that can send more data than existing models, slashing energy costs and increasing bandwidth.

The amount of data sent in the experiment was so vast that no computer exists that could supply or receive this much information so quickly. In experiments, the team instead passed “dummy data” through all channels, says Jørgensen, and tested the output one channel at a time to verify that it was all being sent and could be recovered intact.

“You could say the average internet traffic in the world is about a petabit per second. What we transmit is two times that,” says Jørgensen. “It’s a tremendous amount of data that we’re sending through, essentially, less than a square millimeter [of cable]. It just goes to show that we can go so much further than we are today with internet connections.”

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Okay, so what?

Repeating:

“A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second that is REALLY more traffic than travels through the entire internet’s backbone network per second.

I remember the day we were talking about speeds of “megahertz” - but now we can move 1.84 PETABITS - or about 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits in a second. 

Couple that with super-fast processors and we are talking FAST.

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Just off on a tangent:

He's making a list
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming to town
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!

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So, does Santa Claus have such a high-speed network?  Seemingly Santa Claus knows ALL about you.  He sees you when you are sleeping.  And, maybe most particularly - He knows if you have been bad or good.

Wow - I’m in Santa Claus’ database.  (Has my Fitbit been telling him that I’m sleeping?) [Aside - I don’t have a Fitbit or similar device!!]

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And … a parallel - does God know ALL about me?  Does He see if I am sleeping?  Does He know if I’ve been bad or good?  Does God have a supercomputer?  I (we) are all His (Her) children how does He (She) know all?  Does God (he/she/it/the force/Ahh) hear all my prayers?  Does God hear everyone's prayers? (From Matthew 6:8 - “your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

Am I in God’s database?  And, does He LOVE ME ANYWAY?

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From those early days of vacuum tubes to speeds that boggle my mind, computing is changing everything!!!  (And, that God is more powerful than the fastest transmission speed and the fastest supercomputer!!!)

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LOVE WINS

Karen White, October 31, 2022, ©